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riversedge

(69,721 posts)
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 09:16 PM Aug 2017

Racist rally at Texas A&M on 9/11 to feature Richard Spencer: CounterProtest planned...


On 9/11. wow.


Alyssa Milano?Verified account @Alyssa_Milano 23m23 minutes ago

Racist rally at Texas A&M on 9/11 to feature Richard Spencer










White nationalist rally at Texas A&M to feature Richard Spencer; counterprotest planned


https://www.texastribune.org/2017/08/13/white-nationalist-rally-counter-protest-planned-texas-m-sept-11/

A College Station white nationalist is planning a rally on the campus of Texas A&M University that will feature the infamous self-described "alt-right" leader Richard Spencer. Students are already planning a counterprotest.

by Matthew Watkins Aug. 13, 2017 Updated: 6 PM
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State police in riot gear face protesters at Texas A&M during white nationalist Richard Spencer's visit on December 6, 2016.

State police in riot gear face protesters at Texas A&M during white nationalist Richard Spencer's visit on December 6, 2016. Michael Stravato for The Texas Tribune
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*Editor's note: This article has been updated to include details about Richard Spencer's appearance and comments from A&M System Regent Tony Buzbee.

As the nation watched tension between white nationalists and counterprotesters turn violent Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, worries began to emerge that the discord would come to a Texas college town next.

Richard Spencer, an infamous white nationalist who brought major unrest to Texas A&M University once already, will be coming to College Station again, according to the man who brought him to the university the first time. This time, the event will take place on Sept. 11 at a "White Lives Matter Rally" hosted by Preston Wiginton, a Texan with deep ties to white nationalist movements.

Wiginton announced plans for the rally Saturday afternoon, saying he had invited Spencer. On Sunday, Wiginton said Spencer confirmed plans to attend. ...................
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Racist rally at Texas A&M on 9/11 to feature Richard Spencer: CounterProtest planned... (Original Post) riversedge Aug 2017 OP
I thought I read in another thread here on DU that Texas A&M had cancelled the TheDebbieDee Aug 2017 #1
It was cancelled n/t malaise Aug 2017 #3
You are right. thanks for the update. But, organizers are sueing the Univ to have it. riversedge Aug 2017 #4
They've got a right to free speech but they don't have the right to stage a rally TheDebbieDee Aug 2017 #5
What is that saying about doing things the same way ProudLib72 Aug 2017 #2
For this thread Gothmog Aug 2017 #6

riversedge

(69,721 posts)
4. You are right. thanks for the update. But, organizers are sueing the Univ to have it.
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 09:57 PM
Aug 2017


...........Organizer Preston Wiginton told ABC13 he was "highly disappointed" by the cancellation. He plans to hire an attorney to sue the university.

"Free speech means nothing in America right now. If you're white, you cannot express yourself," he said.

Wiginton said the event would protest the "the liberal agenda of white guilt and white genocide that is taught at most all universities in America."
 

TheDebbieDee

(11,119 posts)
5. They've got a right to free speech but they don't have the right to stage a rally
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 10:18 PM
Aug 2017

any place they want! They need to find a new venue - point blank!

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